Scamper Idea: 10 Evidence-Based Coaching Practices
Describe almost anything you are working through and IX Coach finds the practices whose real-world fit is closest. For Scamper Idea, these are the strongest matches in the current practice library.
About 2 minutes
Try it here: list ideas from the SCAMPER prompts
SCAMPER is a checklist of prompts. Pick one thing to improve, then write an idea for each prompt that sparks one.
Pick one thing to improve. Write an idea for each prompt that sparks one.
Practices that may help
- SCAMPER: A Systematic Creativity Technique
SCAMPER is a structured brainstorming checklist that prompts you to Substitute, Combine, Adapt, Modify/Magnify, Put to other uses, Eliminate, and Reverse/Rearrange elements of an existing product, process, or problem. It is a practitioner-derived tool with no randomized trial evidence but a strong theoretical grounding in divergent thinking research — it works by forcing systematic exploration of an idea space that unguided brainstorming leaves partially uncovered. - Adapt
Ask: what could be adapted or borrowed from another context, industry, or era to solve this problem?
SCAMPER: A Systematic Creativity Technique - Eliminate
Ask: what could be removed, simplified, or reduced without losing what makes this valuable?
SCAMPER: A Systematic Creativity Technique - Build a trusted capture system — one place, consistent use
A capture system is only valuable if you trust that nothing gets lost, which requires using exactly one place.
The Someday List - Substitute
Ask: what component, material, person, process, or rule could be swapped for something different?
SCAMPER: A Systematic Creativity Technique - Capturing ideas without losing the flow
Have a frictionless capture method so walking insights don’t evaporate.
Walking for Creativity - Put to other uses
Ask: who else could use this, and what problems could it solve if applied somewhere entirely different?
SCAMPER: A Systematic Creativity Technique - Combine
Ask: what two things — purposes, materials, functions, or ideas — could be merged to create something new?
SCAMPER: A Systematic Creativity Technique - Modify and Magnify
Ask: what happens if you make an element bigger, smaller, faster, slower, stronger, or weaker?
SCAMPER: A Systematic Creativity Technique - Review your Backburner list regularly to surface ideas whose time has come
The Backburner is not a graveyard — schedule a periodic review so good ideas that needed time can become Action Steps.
The Action Method, Made Practical
Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I have a hunch somebody, somewhere, has already cracked a problem shaped just like mine
- This has slowly piled up with so many steps and features that it feels heavy, and I’m sure some of them are just there out of habit
- Ideas come to me in the shower, in the car, at 2am, and I scatter them across notes apps and sticky notes and half-finished emails
- I keep treating one piece of this as a given
- The best ideas hit me mid-walk and then by the time I’m home they’re gone — and stopping to type them out kills the flow and the next one never comes.
Related concerns
- Scamper Other Uses
SCAMPER is a structured brainstorming checklist that prompts you to Substitute, Combine, Adapt, Modify/Magnify, Put to other uses, Eliminate, and Reverse/Rearrange elements of an existing product, process, or problem. It is a practitioner-derived tool with no randomized trial evidence but a strong theoretical grounding in divergent thinking research — it works by forcing systematic exploration of an idea space that unguided brainstorming leaves partially uncovered.
- Scamper Combine
SCAMPER is a structured brainstorming checklist that prompts you to Substitute, Combine, Adapt, Modify/Magnify, Put to other uses, Eliminate, and Reverse/Rearrange elements of an existing product, process, or problem. It is a practitioner-derived tool with no randomized trial evidence but a strong theoretical grounding in divergent thinking research — it works by forcing systematic exploration of an idea space that unguided brainstorming leaves partially uncovered.
- Scamper Ideation
SCAMPER is a structured brainstorming checklist that prompts you to Substitute, Combine, Adapt, Modify/Magnify, Put to other uses, Eliminate, and Reverse/Rearrange elements of an existing product, process, or problem. It is a practitioner-derived tool with no randomized trial evidence but a strong theoretical grounding in divergent thinking research — it works by forcing systematic exploration of an idea space that unguided brainstorming leaves partially uncovered.
- Scamper Modify Magnify
SCAMPER is a structured brainstorming checklist that prompts you to Substitute, Combine, Adapt, Modify/Magnify, Put to other uses, Eliminate, and Reverse/Rearrange elements of an existing product, process, or problem. It is a practitioner-derived tool with no randomized trial evidence but a strong theoretical grounding in divergent thinking research — it works by forcing systematic exploration of an idea space that unguided brainstorming leaves partially uncovered.
- Scamper Put To Another Use Example
SCAMPER is a structured brainstorming checklist that prompts you to Substitute, Combine, Adapt, Modify/Magnify, Put to other uses, Eliminate, and Reverse/Rearrange elements of an existing product, process, or problem. It is a practitioner-derived tool with no randomized trial evidence but a strong theoretical grounding in divergent thinking research — it works by forcing systematic exploration of an idea space that unguided brainstorming leaves partially uncovered.
- What Is Scamper Meaning
SCAMPER is a structured brainstorming checklist that prompts you to Substitute, Combine, Adapt, Modify/Magnify, Put to other uses, Eliminate, and Reverse/Rearrange elements of an existing product, process, or problem. It is a practitioner-derived tool with no randomized trial evidence but a strong theoretical grounding in divergent thinking research — it works by forcing systematic exploration of an idea space that unguided brainstorming leaves partially uncovered.
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